Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A country bumpkin watches a series of films at a vaudeville show. He mistakes the moving images for real life and tries to join in the action.

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What happens

Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show is a 1902 American short silent comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter, featuring a naive spectator trying to interact with films projected onto a screen. It is an almost identical remake of a British 1901 film directed by Robert W. Paul, The Countryman and the Cinematograph. Paul's film was the first to feature a film shown within a film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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